On 9/16/05, Jan de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 15:43 -0400, Andrew Conkling wrote:
> > It seems that there are a lot of automounters out there at the
> > moment--autofs, automount, supermount, submount, ivman--but which one
> > is the best to use? I know that D-BUS/HAL make for very good
> > handling, but do any of the kernel people have opinions on which one
> > to use? I'm looking for something in userspace but completely
> > DE-independent. I've been using ivman but it seems complicated and
> > hasn't been working for me. Is there something simpler I could try?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Andrew
>
> As hal/dbus maintainer, I would say HAL. I hate automounters pure
> because they cause data corruption and huge kernel logs. Tried submount
> last week, but didn't work as I wanted.
> The nice thing with hal/dbus is that you get mountpoints created
> in /media automatically for all removable devices and that it fills up
> fstab with those so every normal user can mount them. You're free in
> your choice about mounting them, you could use mount, but also tools
> like ivman, gnome-volume-manager or KDE's media:/ KIOSlave.
For the record, udev itself can handle removable storage...
rules:
BUS=="usb", SYSFS{serial}=="1234567", NAME="ext_disc"
GROUP="automount" RUN="/usr/bin/mount_external"
#!/bin/sh
# /usr/bin/mount_external
if [ $ACTION == "remove" ]; then
umount $DEVPATH$DEVNAME
else #add
#setup dirs
[ -d /mnt ] && mkdir /mnt
[ -d /mnt/auto ] && mkdir /mnt/auto
[ -d /mnt/auto/$DEVNAME ] && mkdir /mnt/auto/$DEVNAME
mount -t auto -o users,group $DEVPATH$DEVNAME /mnt/auto/$DEVNAME
fi
Now that was just off-the-cuff, but with minor tweaking that should
mount and umount removable storage and allow you access as long as you
are in the "automount" group....
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